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1. Crypto VC Paradigm launches Policy Lab
-- Has 2 inaugural fellows studying regulatory equivalence
-- Accepting user submissions for policy research proposals (eligible for up to $5k in grant funding)
2. CEXs gain traction in Europe
-- Kraken granted E-Money Institution status in Ireland and VASP registration in Spain
-- Coinbase secures AML registration in Spain
-- Binance re-enters Belgium market via Poland-based entity
3. Coinbase International Exchange obtains regulatory approval from Bermuda to list perpetual futures
-- The offering is available to retail users outside US
4. Taiwan's financial watchdog issues guiding principles for crypto firms
-- Guidance on white paper publication, asset custody, and local registration for overseas firms
5. Hong Kong to publish a list of licensed virtual asset trading platforms
-- Action taken in response to the controversy surrounding Hong Kong-based JPEX, an unlicensed crypto exchange charged with fraud
1. Blocknative to suspend MEV-boost relay after economics fail to materialize
2. Celestia is airdropping 60M tokens as part of its Genesis Drop
3. Chainlink's cross-chain interoperability protocol launches on Base
1. Binance and banking giant MUFG are running a joint study to issue stablecoins in Japan
2. Thailand-based SCBX partners with Korea-based Hashed on blockchain R&D initiatives
-- Aim is to grow web3 adoption in Southeast Asia
3. Binance selling its Russian business to CommEX
4. Curve Founder Michael Egorov settles entire debt position on Aave
-- Eases fear of a massive liquidation event that could have triggered a contagion across DeFi
5. BIS and the central banks of Singapore, France, and Switzerland successful in testing out cross-border trading of wCBDCs
-- Used an AMM on a public blockchain to carry out the trading
5. Ripple cancels plan to acquire Fortress Trust
-- Fortress recently revealed a theft of $15M, which was pinned on a 3rd-party vendor
6. Valkyrie first in the US to offer exposure to both BTC and ETH futures under one ETF wrapper
7. Wire service MoneyGram releasing a non-custodial wallet in 2024
8. Chase Bank UK to block crypto-linked payments starting Oct 16
-- Citing increasing fraud and scams
9. Aptos Foundation and Thala launch $1M fund
-- Purpose: incentivize developers to create new DeFi protocols on Aptos
1. NFT brand Pudgy Penguins debuts toy collection in 2k Walmart locations
-- Each toy comes with a unique birth certificate that allows the user to claim unique traits for their digital character inside Pudgy World, an online virtual world
2. Buenos Aires adopts blockchain-based digital identity solution
-- Allows citizens to store and manage their government-issued documents on zkSync Era
1. L2 protocol Mixin Network hacked for ~$200M
-- Offering hacker $20M bug bounty reward for returning funds
2. Crypto exchange HTX (formerly Huobi) hacked for $8M
-- HTX fully reimbursing affected users
3. Upbit temporarily suspends Aptos token withdrawals after discovering counterfeit tokens
-- Counterfeit Aptos tokens were created by airdrop scam site ClaimAPTGift
-- Oversight in verifying type arguments caused all counterfeit APT transfers to be identified as native APT transfers
4. OpenSea discloses security incident that may have exposed user API keys
-- Existing keys to be sunset by Oct 2
5. Immunefi launches on-chain vaults in first milestone to decentralize bug bounty platform
-- Projects are allocated sovereign vaults to manage their respective bug bounty programs
-- SSV Network has already deposited $1M into its sovereign vault
1. Robot Ventures GP Tarun Chitra publishes research on MEV (source)
-- Conclusion: transaction sequencing rules need to be app-specific; neither fair ordering techniques nor economic mechanisms can individually mitigate MEV for arbitrary payoff functions
2. Pantera publishes study on compensation in the crypto industry
-- 97% of people are paid in fiat
-- Exec salaries range from $147-335k and have token incentives averaging $1.3M
3. Research by Bosch on AMMs (source)
-- Provides a taxonomy that showcases AMM design characteristics
-- Demonstrates how to design AMMs to solve the thin market problem
4. The cost of swapping on Uniswap (source)
-- Conclusion: gas costs dominate transaction costs for small swaps; price-impact and slippage dominate transaction costs for large swaps
-- Presents an alternative way to quantify and identify slippage due to adversarial reordering of transactions, called reordering slippage
5. Privacy-preserving computation for decentralized personal data stores (source)
-- Use of MPC to perform privacy-preserving computation on personal data
6. Assessing the solvency of VASPs (source)
-- Assesses insolvency of Austrian VASPs by cross-referencing data from 3 sources: cryptoasset wallets, balance sheets from the commercial register, and data from supervisory entities
7. Sui considering adoption of Cuttlefish (source)
-- Cuttlefish allows for the consensus-less execution of a broader set of transactions, including asset swaps and multi-sig transactions, that were previously thought to need consensus
8. Multi-dimensional data quick query for blockchain-based federated learning (source)
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